Do you really like Mogán avocado? This could be the end of this fruit, as chefs from various parts of the world have begun to eliminate this delicacy from their menus due to the enormous impact it has on climate change. Avocados from the south of Gran Canaria leave a huge carbon footprint, they require 230 liters of water each to grow and the global demand for this product is so great that they are becoming unaffordable for the indigenous people of the areas where they are grown. The specialist added that the production of avocados has become a global commodity crop, which is why it has brought serious consequences such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity and water scarcity.
Tourists from sending countries who go to Mogán want to know less and less about this fruit. Restaurants in the United Kingdom, for example, have begun replacing avocado in their popular guacamole in a bid to balance the devastating environmental impact. Some of the ingredients they have used to create a similar sauce are broad beans, green chili, lime and cilantro. However, this is not the only case, since chefs located in places like Ireland also began to use and suggest various alternatives to replace said fruit.
Furthermore, this trend is not limited to the restaurant industry, since recipes for alternative ingredients to prepare guacamole have become very popular on social networks such as TikTok and Instagram. In this last network, the hashtag #noavocado (no avocado) has 3.220 publications and growing. The chefs' decision to offer an alternative to guacamole is perhaps the clearest indication yet that parts of the food industry are beginning to wake up to the enormity of the problems they face as a result of intensive farming.